Just Breathe, Okâwîmâwaskiy (Just Breathe, Mother Earth) is a collaborative project led by Cree artist Sandra Lamouche and settler artist Melanie Kloetzel.
Just Breathe, Okâwîmâwaskiy offers intimate groups of 25-30 individuals an immersive journey into and out of climate anxiety. Using tactics of disorientation, satire, and state-based tasks for audience-participants, Just Breathe, Okâwîmâwaskiy presents audience-participants with the opportunity to engage with the climate crisis as a nexus where economics, ecology, health and Indigenous knowledge meet.
Each Just Breathe, Okâwîmâwaskiy journey concludes with an hour-long debriefing session. These sessions help the audience examine the feelings that emerged during the immersive journey, as well as connect to others who may be feeling disempowered in the face of the climate emergency.
Just Breathe, Okâwîmâwaskiy premiered in 2023, and has been performed over twenty times between 2023-2025. A film version of the project was released in 2025 for greater audience accessibility.
